Old “Bee Hive” Coke Ovens (Ruins near Wylam, Ala.)

Roderick D. MacKenzie

1937

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Christ crucified with three mask-like heads on vertical axis of cross. The top head wears a skull cap, the middle head wears a crown, and the bottom head is a skull. The cross is being consumed by a red demon enveloped by flames, suggestive of hell. The cross is flanked by an angel on the left, and the destruction of a temple on the right.
Female Nude, Alvin Ross, lithograph
The work depicts an erupting volcano (Mount Vesuvius) with plume of ash and smoke in distant background, transected by a long horizontal cloud. A vast expanse of placid water (Tyrrhenian Sea), receding in space to the base of the volcano, fills the fore- and middle-ground.
In this round print in black ink on paper, two centrally located figures work to produce maple sugar. While the figure on the right carries to buckets with a yolk at his neck, the figure at the left dumps the same type of bucket into a larger vessel. Behind this figure at the left are two oxen yolked to move the larger vessel. In the background (behind the group) is a barn, a maple tree tapped to produce maple syrup, and partially visible trees. At the bottom of thep rint is a small still life that incldues maple leaves and implements used in the production of maple syrup.